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China's well-being is predicated on continuing that flood of exports, so the U.S. has some leverage over China's policies. But beyond that carrot, the U.S.'s tools have become limited. When Jiang Zemin, Hu's predecessor, visited the U.S. in 1997, Washington could still block China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), of which it is now a member, campaign against China's hosting of the Summer Olympic Games (which will be held in Beijing in 2008) and tie access to the U.S. market to improvements in human rights (unlawful under WTO rules). Now, says...
...country's indigenous majority; in La Paz, Bolivia. The demonstrations, which call for the nationalization of the country's natural gas reserves to prevent exploitation by foreign companies, have closed airports in the nation and cut off food and fuel supplies to its major cities. Mesa, whose predecessor resigned in 2003 following protests over the government's energy policy, warned that "the country is on the verge of civil war." He has been succeeded by Supreme Court Chief Justice Eduardo Rodriguez...
...colleagues on the Corporation, Summers could easily count on the backing of two whose reputations at Harvard are inextricably tied to his own: Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ predecessor at the U.S. Treasury, and Hanna H. Gray, former president of the University of Chicago...
Back on campus, conservative-leaning faculty members viewed Summers’ 2001 appointment as University president with guarded optimism. “Almost anyone would have been better than [Summers’ predecessor Neil L.] Rudenstine,” says Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor of government...
...probably fair to assume that at least some, and perhaps most, of these departures would not have taken place under [his predecessor] Neil Rudenstine’s presidency,” Cabot Professor of English Literature and of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors writes in an e-mail...